What is a Trauma Sensitive Classroom?
A trauma sensitive classroom can have numerous positives effects that help students with severe or minor traumas feel safe, heard and cared for in the classroom.
Creating a Trauma Sensitive
Classroom The article focuses on different areas of understanding that aim to inform teachers while creating trauma-sensitive classrooms. The first area of understanding is the impact of trauma on attachment and the brain. As students form secure attachments, this then allows for students to resist being stuck within a hyperarousal state (constantly on guard). Next, understanding trauma in early childhood settings may help identify the root of challenging behaviors or trauma. The article highlights the various understandings needed to create a safe classroom and tips for meeting the needs of families whose children may have experienced trauma.
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Relationship, responsibility, and regulation: trauma-invested practices for fostering resilient learners
To begin with, this book discusses awareness and self-care which creates a safe environment for students to come to every day. It also explains how behavior can be an indicator of students' needs as well as strategies educators can use to help fulfill those needs. The end of this book has a great message for educators reminding them that they are not perfect and what they are doing is enough because you can only try your best.
Relationship, responsibility, and regulation: trauma-invested practices for fostering resilient learners By Kristin Souers & Peter A. Hall Gale eBooks 2019 |
Fostering Resilient
Learners This book is a very in depth discussion on creating resilient learners in the classroom. This book has a wide variety of chapters on different trauma topics like: Staying True to Who You Are, Remaining Grounded Amid Chaos, The Power of Relationship, and Forever Changed, Not Forever Damaged. All of these give teachers chapters on general information, building relationships and focusing on building stronger students rather than focusing on the past and living in fear.
Fostering Resilient Learners: Strategies for Creating a Trauma-Sensitive Classroom By Kristin Souers & Peter A. Hall 2016 |
Trauma and Violence Informed Teaching- Why it is critically important, and how we can do it...
Trauma-informed teaching helps students who experience moments that overwhelm their ability to cope. This blog explores different ways to inform teaching as it references Bruce Perry who says that "just as a traumatic experience can alter a life in an instant, so too can a therapeutic encounter." The article highlights the significance of these therapeutic moments in developing a trauma-informed teaching approach. Additionally, it references the recent Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) study, which has helped raise awareness to the potential effects of abuse, neglect, and household challenges on students' ability to learn and be engaged at school. Lastly, the article provides guidance to help inform violence-informed teaching by building trauma awareness, trust/safety in the classroom, fostering opportunities for choice, and connecting by listening and using a strength-based approach.
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